EP&SW 1

bobyar2001 · **Posted:** Sun Mar 04, 2007 2:44 pm

Pirated photo from the Denver Public Library, of El Paso & South Western
No. 1, already a display locomotive in long-ago 1919:

http://abpr.railfan.net/abprphoto.cgi?n ... SW0001.jpg

Stephen S. Syfrett · **Posted:** Sun Mar 04, 2007 6:09 pm

Is she a Rogers locomotive? I see some common features, or what I think are Rogers features.

Robby Peartree · **Joined:** Wed Aug 25, 2004 11:16 am **Posts:** 767

El Paso & Southwestern #1 was built by Breese, Kneeland & Company of Jersey City, New Jersey. It is builder number #73 and I understand this is the only example of their work still in existence. According to the El Paso & Southwestern diagram books in the Hagerty Collection at the University of Texas at El Paso the cylinders are 15”x22” with 64” drivers and 110 psi boiler pressure Tractive effort is 7232 pounds. It was purchased by the Arizona & Southeastern (a phelps, dodge property) in July 1889 from Basse & Norton of Chicago. The EP&SW was formed with the decision of phelps dodge to expand their railroad east to El Paso. The locomotive was removed form the roster on April 30, 1909 and placed in front of the general office building on August 1909.

Robby Peartree